Welcome to the Standing Committee on Planning
AASHTO's Standing Committee on Planning (SCOP) investigates, studies, and reports on transportation planning activities. Comprehensive transportation planning is conducted by the State Departments of Transportation for a variety of policy, programming, and project level activities, including:
- Legislative requests for transportation system performance
- Urban and statewide transportation systems
- Corridor and site planning for individual facilities.
To help serve the transportation planning community and share best-practices, SCOP:
- Reviews and evaluates methods and information essential to transportation planning
- Promotes and encourages interaction among transportation stakeholders
- Reviews national problems, existing and proposed policies, Federal guidelines, and other regulations related to transportation.
Events
- Virtual Conference to Identify Planning Research Needs, March 8, 1:00 PM EST: The Research Subcommittee of the AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning will be conducting this "Virtual Conference" in 2010. The Opening Plenary Session will be held on March 8, 2010 to be followed by eight breakout sessions. Please visit: http://www.transportationplanningneeds.com/ for more information.
- The Standing Committee on Planning is preparing for its 2010 summer meeting, with a proposed date of late June 2010. Check back for details!
- SCOP's Asset Management Subcommittee is working with the NCHRP to conduct a peer exchange and roll-out of the Transportation Asset Management Guide Volume 2 - A Focus on Implementation on Wednesday, May 19 in conjunction with the AASHTO Spring Meeting in Natchez, MS. Please contact Michelle Maggiore with questions and visit the SCOP Meetings page and AASHTO Annual Meeting page for updates.
- On October 22 and 23 at the AASHTO Annual Meeting in Palm Desert, CA, the FHWA sponsored an Executive Roundtable on Performance-based Planning and Programming. At this exchange, members of AASHTO's Standing Committee on Planning had the opportunity to better define system performance as it relates to the transportation planning process. Please contact Michelle Maggiore with questions and visit the SCOP Meetings page and AASHTO Annual Meeting page for updates.
Our Members
SCOP Members are leaders in statewide transportation planning. We recognize the importance of updating our membership roster to recognize the achievements of our members in their respective organizations. Please contact AASHTO SCOP liaison Michelle Maggiore, mmaggiore@aashto.org, with changes to the SCOP Memberscommittee roster.
Reporting Committees:
- Subcommittee on Research
- Subcommittee on Asset Management
- Subcommittee on Policy Analysis
- Subcommittee on Institutional Change
- Subcommittee on Data
- Subcommittee on Capacity Building
Technical Programs:
Shared Ideas
We recognize that many other individuals in the state departments of transportation and numerous other federal, state, and local agencies and the private sector are actively involved in the comprehensive transportation planning process. To help share best practices among stakeholders, SCOP created statewideplanning.org. Statewideplanning.org is used by SCOP to share resources, best practices, and other information to further improve the practice of statewide transportation planning.